Chapter 1: The Patient in the Dungeon

The dungeon smelled of iron and old lightning, and every physician before Tang Weiwei had refused to descend its stairs twice. She was new, naive, and according to the original novel had approximately seventy-two hours left to live, so she picked up her medicine box and went down anyway. The man chained to the far wall opened one silver eye and said, with the calm of someone who had not spoken in six months, "You are either very brave or very stupid."